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How to use authority in a sentence

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The hagiocracy can only be kept going by an appeal to the authority of tradition.
Reasonable expenses incurred by the applicant in that connection will be met by the Authority.
The National Tourism Authority of Laos predicted that 743,000 visitors would bring 107 billion kip into the local economy.
While we were checking, we got a missive direct from Net Authority Investigations noting the following.
The Zambia Revenue Authority will target small-scale traders and marketeers and unregistered passenger and cargo transporters.
The company is still going through the process of receiving environmental clearance from the Environmental Management Authority.
Geraldton Port Authority acting harbour master David Murgatroyd said the skipper anchored the boat, Rex, and radioed for help about 5 am.
As we have no TV, we've been continually targeted by the TV Licensing Authority with a series of letters of increasing obnoxiousness.
Authority in the firm is concentrated at senior levels of managerial hierarchies.
If there is any move to block the deal, the opinion of the Competition Authority must be sought.
He was attending a West Regional Authority meeting in Galway city chambers and missed all the excitement.
These relate to standards of claims handling and securing approval from the Authority.
The substances will be tested over the next seven years by independent scientists working for the new European Food Safety Authority.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Bill has been cleared by the Union cabinet.
Much support is on offer from the Local Authority in the form of bags, gloves, tabards, litter pickers and disposal.
Spearheading the training courses, validated by the Qualification Curriculum Authority, is Douglas Morgan.
The High Authority was further advised by a general assembly made up of parliamentarians from the member states.
Members thought the Lake District National Park Authority should grant permission provided there was a local occupancy clause.
There were also criticisms that he was spending time on the telephone, apparently directly related to his ongoing dispute against the Authority.
The move comes after planners refused two applications from the Police Authority to reclad the tower and refurbish the surrounding buildings.
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The Fairfax County Park Authority has always welcomed leashed dogs in all of its parks.
It is absolute blackmail and that was said to members of the Authority and various chairmen by tinpot politicians.
He said there was no point the engineers hiding behind the National Roads Authority.
The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland differentiates between nudity and suggestive sexual imagery.
The satire of Circumstance is another of Hardy's wry puttings-down of Authority, with unfledged children as the instruments of execution.
This matter would be considered when the application was formally lodged to the Local Authority.
After that, final recommendations will be put forward to the Strategic Health Authority.
Last night there was no sign of the 17-member Police Authority or its Chief Constable backing down from its stand.
The National Roads Authority 1999 Survey of Free Speeds quantifies widespread non-observance of speed limits by all classes of traffic.
There was a need for the Authority to centralize power in order to deliver effectively in the form of tangible results of the peace process.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand can assist with holiday brochures and information.
The pay-outs by the former North Yorkshire Health Authority were rubber-stamped today by a judge sitting at Harrogate County Court.
There was a hidden rock beneath the sea, but it was capable of being discovered by the Authority.
From now on all courses are validated by the independent agency-The National Qualifications Authority.
The seminar was organized in conjunction with the Sport Authority of Thailand.
Fifty percent of all households rely on the Local Authority for their housing needs.
Also present on the site and giving the tour was Mr Jim Gill who is chairman of the Authority who commissioned the memorial.
They not only have the law to answer to, but the Hackney Carriage Licensing Authority and the taxi office from which they work.
The Competition Authority is to probe excessive fees and uncompetitive practices in the Irish banking sector.
A few NGOs and the Integrated Tribal Development Authority have banded together to help them.
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The Roads Authority imposed restrictions on the use of the B1 route between Rehoboth and Windhoek for the purpose of major roadworks.
I had by 1969 begun to purchase the yearbooks published annually by the Independent Television Authority.
The Port Authority acting harbour master said the skipper anchored the boat and radioed for help about 5 am.
The West London Waste Authority must look to more sustainable ways of dealing with residual waste.
The proposal includes an arrangement with the City of Toronto Parking Authority to purchase 150 spaces in the completed development.
Former Education Authority senior assistant director Gary Nethercott has also been made an assistant chief executive.
The Civil Aviation Authority said no-fly zones are already in place above some nuclear plants, including Aldermaston.
Van der Walt said his team had unlimited access to a National Prosecuting Authority strongroom full of documents and statements.
Coun Amson even petitioned the Greater London Authority on the police station issue.
The qualified veterinary surgeon was previously director of consumer protection at the Food Safety Authority.
A similar development occurred with regard to the homeless men who used the Port Authority terminal in New York City as a hang-out.
Port of London Authority rules require that all craft must proceed at all times at a safe speed when navigating anywhere on the tidal Thames.
After the war, he worked for the New York Mass Transit Authority, selling tokens from booths in various subway stations.
Still, they are highly imaginative and even funny, involving the team's tangle with a cosmic bureaucracy known as the Time Variance Authority.
The Kuwait Investment Authority has 24 percent share in the bank and the rest is owned by Kuwaiti citizens.
He said he was questioned over an alleged incident between him and a Lake District National Park Authority ranger.
The Competition Authority has welcomed the government's decision to require lawyers to submit tenders for work in future tribunals of inquiry.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority is currently authoring guidelines to regulate insurance advertising.
The Financial Services Authority, Britain's markets regulator, has cautioned banks about mis-selling products.
The group will meet Cromarty Firth Port Authority later this month to discuss options for mooring the vessel.
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An early task for the new Food Standards Authority involves exercising wisdom over a classical problem in public health nutrition.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority, he strayed into a two-mile wide no-fly zone over Heysham nuclear power station.
Surely the Dental Authority could visit nurseries and schools to educate youngsters in dental health.
The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority claims the cowboys were illegally using the former warehouse as a stable, a use it wasn't zoned for.
West Yorkshire Fire Authority has already approved plans to scrap an aerial appliance at Stanningley fire station earlier this month.
We have fought long-drawn battles against the Water Authority exploiting consumers in the name of water-meters.
The public has grumbled to a point where it has lost faith in the Authority because of its failure to carry out its mandate.
After some uncertainty, Essex Police Authority has now been granted the money.
Thanks to new regulations that came into effect last October, mortgages are now overseen by the Financial Services Authority.
Glasgow Education Authority organised holidays for the necessitous children of the city from the 1920s onwards.
The Highways Authority has not raised any objections to the principle of the access road.
Services will be curtailed while fire doors are replaced, by order of the Health and Safety Authority.
Thus, while it was not the only factor, there was a suggestion that the fact that resources were limited had influenced the Authority.
Due to provincial cuts to their budget, the Fraser Health Authority has had to put home care on the chopping block, with other regions to follow.
The Fire Authority admitted a catalogue of systematic failings but laid the blame elsewhere.
The London Chair Authority are agitating for more pay, but to be honest the system could carry on indefinitely without them.
The company has also been certified by the Port Authority that its vessels are safe.
Rangers from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority have joined forces with the police to tackle the problem of illegal off-roading.
The Financial Services Authority has a statutory remit to coax punters into greater awareness about husbanding their dosh.
There shall be a body corporate called the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
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The Port Authority said it had to choose between berthing its own ferries and the cruise ship.
Operation Night Life, with the Gauteng Tourism Authority, focuses on tourist's spots, taverns, shebeens and clubs.
All autopsies were carried out by pathologists at the Health Sciences Authority.
After the Tribune, he moved to the other side of the speaker's rostrum, becoming the public affairs manager of the Transit Authority.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has annulled the results of children at Grove Street Primary School in Barnsley.
The Communications Authority has called on the general public to make their complaints official by reporting them to the Authority.
The air rights for these parcels are the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which is the agency overseeing the Big Dig.
In our view, it is absolutely critically important that the Police Complaints Authority is independent and is seen to be independent.
Frank Pickles has been a park ranger with the North York Moors National Parks Authority for 12 years.
The Police Authority keeps stating that speed cameras are always visible and only placed in accident black spots.
Advertisers are answerable to the Advertising Standards Authority, and liquor ads face strong vetting.
The Local Planning Authority refused the application for a certificate of lawfulness.
Companies can only market products if they have authorisation to do so from the Licensing Authority.
Bhagoo said his executive had also secured 23 axis deer and three impalas from the Zambia Wildlife Authority.
The couple launched an appeal against an enforcement order, but a National Assembly inspector sided with the National Park Authority.
This rule is set by the national parks general policy and approved by the Conservation Authority.
Amongst the non-professionals on the Authority were a television producer, a well-known actress, and a senior bank official.
He is also hoping to wrangle Trade Promotion Authority back out of Congress in exchange for his craven cave-in to special interests.
The recommendation still has to be considered by the Police Authority on February 13, which could technically overrule the group.
Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent, the Court will itself exercise his authority.
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Officers hold a commission from the Sovereign, which provides the legal authority for them to issue orders to subordinates.
A housing bill passed in 1946 increased Treasury subsidies for the construction of local authority housing in England and Wales.
Anyone unemployed for longer than that had to rely on poor law relief paid by their local authority.
Legal administration in the Ottoman Empire was part of a larger scheme of balancing central and local authority.
Disregarding this loss, in 1773 the king established the Commission of National Education, the first government education authority in Europe.
The armed forces are loyal, and we live in a democracy, but actually their ultimate authority is the Queen.
Parliament retains authority to pass laws regulating the Church of England.
From his judicial authority followed his power both to make laws and to annul them.
In practice, much of this authority is delegated to the Church's General Synod.
With the authority of the papal bull Henry landed with a large fleet in 1171 and claimed sovereignty over the island.
Prior to 2015 the eight authorities formed only a combined strategic planning authority.
Since the government in Dublin had little real authority, however, the Statutes did not have much effect.
Weber's conception of charismatic authority has been noted as the basis of many nationalist governments.
At higher airspeeds there is sufficient aileron authority to perform extremely fast rolls.
It also seems that the wife of a chieftain was entitled to some share of the chief's authority over his territory.
During this time, Harold Godwinson led a campaign of raids which dented the authority in Wales.
Fathers were the main figures of authority, but wives also played an important and respected role.
Works of authority is the formal name for works that are sometimes cited as interpretations of aspects of the UK constitution.
The present queen would brighten her character, if she would exert her authority to instill virtues into her people.
Though the sultan was the supreme monarch, the sultan's political and executive authority was delegated.
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People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.
This was due in part to The Anarchy and Stephen's loose rule resulting in the reduction of royal authority.
The British clerics rejected all of these, as well as Augustine's authority over them.
Odo was succeeded by his son Hunald, who reverted to former independence, so defying the Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel's authority.
This indicates that by the late 12th century a knowledge of English was expected of those in positions of authority in England.
English is a pluricentric language, which means that no one national authority sets the standard for use of the language.
The Shetland Islands Council is the Local Government authority for all the islands, based in Lerwick Town Hall.
By the end of the 15th century, central English authority in Ireland had all but disappeared.
Mehmed allowed the Orthodox Church to maintain its autonomy and land in exchange for accepting Ottoman authority.
His moral authority and support allowed her to resist the internal threat from the Heathite wets.
This would have been considered tampering with the king's authority over his vassals, which William would not have tolerated.
The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.
The Constitution explicitly vests executive authority in the Government, not the President.
These are not part of Her Majesty's Government, and are accountable to their own institutions, with their own authority under the Crown.
Despite his lack of actual authority, his autocratic demeanour annoyed many of his colleagues.
A degree of domestic authority, and all foreign policy, remain with the UK Parliament in Westminster.
The executive authority of the Government is subject to certain limitations.
The Welsh Assembly has the authority to draft and approve laws outside of the UK Parliamentary system to meet the specific needs of Wales.
They served as junior Earls of Bernicia under the titular authority of the Earl of Northumbria.
Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights judged Turkey for having exercised authority in the territory of Northern Cyprus.
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The Scottish Parliament has legislative authority for all other areas relating to Scotland, as well as a limited power to vary income tax.
That Alfred sent alms to Irish and Continental monasteries may be taken on Asser's authority.
Koslofsky speculates that it was driven by the need to find new sources of authority in a confessionally fragmented age.
The same authority is extended under international law over the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in a foreign country.
Much legislation, in practice, is effected by means of secondary legislation under the authority of prior laws or Orders in Council.
This discussion is between an internal sovereign or an authority of public sovereignty.
She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.
Public Sovereignty is the belief that ultimate authority is vested in the people themselves, expressed in the idea of the general will.
The presence of a strong authority allows you to keep agreement and enforce sanctions for the violation of laws.
When you have weak internal sovereignty, organisations such as rebel groups will undermine the authority and disrupt the peace.
This argument between who should hold the authority within a sovereign state is called the traditional doctrine of public sovereignty.
This means that the power is elected and supported by its members, the authority has a central goal of the good of the people in mind.
The central authority of the company's board is being challenged.
King Oswiu presided over the synod and acted as the final judge, who would give his royal authority in support of one side or the other.
The current notion of state sovereignty contains four aspects consisting of territory, population, authority and recognition.
The church was now 'tributary', her sons had 'embraced dung' and the nobility had lost their authority to govern.
There are 269 'lower tier' authorities, which all have the function of billing authority for Council Tax.
In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme authority over some polity.
Specifically, the degree to which decisions made by a sovereign entity might be contradicted by another authority.
While the Council can give advice, submit proposals, and monitor development projects, it does not have the authority to make official decisions.
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Executive authority was to be vested in the crown, and in theory not answerable to either parliament.
In the local authority area, the geology is complex, providing diverse scenery.
To this day, much of the freehold of the town belongs to the local authority.
The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, with the Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority.
However, the County Borough no longer exists and so there was no authority to do so.
Maximinus considered Constantine's arrangement with Licinius an affront to his authority.
The government was restructured and civil and military authority separated.
This made Miliband the first Labour leader to have the authority to pick his own Shadow Cabinet.
In 1945 and again in 1961 the Courts responded that they had no authority to review the government's actions.
A critical House of Commons Report in 1851 called for the appointment of a director, whose authority would surpass that of the trustees.
Eventually I was promoted, and a small team of recruits came under my authority.
With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.
Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, his opposition to authority stayed constant.
In the west, Justinian's political authority never went any farther than certain portions of the Italian and Hispanic peninsulas.
His Romeo was not well reviewed, but as Richard II Gielgud was recognised by critics as a Shakespearean actor of undoubted authority.
Each of these genderings of the pedagogical relation specifically and profoundly inflects the question of authority.
In a federal or confederal union the states continue in existence but place themselves under a new federal authority.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
From 1996, the term City of York describes a unitary authority area which includes rural areas beyond the old city boundaries.
The earlier Greater Manchester County Council was abolished in 1986 so it is effectively a unitary authority.
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Legislation sanctioned on 4 August 1789 abolished the Church's authority to impose the tithe.
Henry VIII restored his authority by establishing the Council of the North in York in the dissolved St Mary's Abbey.
At the same time, the republican regime was forced to deal with rebellions against its authority in much of western and southern France.
The conflict weakened the authority and military power of Spain, especially after the Battle of Trafalgar.
In that situation, courts will look to holdings of other jurisdictions for persuasive authority.
Napoleon's triumph at Marengo secured his political authority and boosted his popularity back home, but it did not lead to an immediate peace.
The power of church courts and religious authority was sharply reduced and equality under the law was proclaimed for all men.
Aremorica was controlled by Bagaudae, local leaders not under the authority of the Empire.
Many Londoners, in particular, took to using the Underground railway system, without authority, for shelter and sleeping through the night.
The Wessex project, in the 1980s, attempted to standardise IT systems across a regional health authority.
Prichard, our best authority on this subject, apportions the greater part of the habitable globe to the melonic or dark-haired races.
The post of leader was recognised, and leaders typically chair several important committees, but had no special authority.
This means, in effect, that nothing otherwise lawful that a local authority may wish to do can be ultra vires.
It is identified in legislation as a billing authority, and was known as a rating authority.
Precepting authorities do not collect Council Tax directly, but instruct a billing authority to do it on their behalf by setting a precept.
The billing authority collects the whole amount, and then detaches the precept and funnels it to the relevant precepting authority.
Stilicho attempted to restore Roman authority in the late 390s, but in 401 he took Roman troops from Britain to fight the Goths.
The Court was the highest authority in the law, settling legal disputes in the Community, while the Auditors had no power but to investigate.
Edward I, who had coerced recognition as Lord Paramount of Scotland, the feudal superior of the realm, steadily undermined John's authority.
A degree of domestic authority, and all foreign policy, remains with the UK Parliament in Westminster.
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The first, in 1258, stripped the King of unlimited authority and the second, in 1265, included ordinary citizens from the towns.
A parish council is a civil local authority found in England and is the lowest, or first, tier of local government.
Acts which made it high treason to deny Philip's royal authority were passed in England and Ireland.
A parliament consisting of representatives of the realm was the logical way for Montfort to establish his authority.
Conciliarists never achieved consensus as to how to define the Church or account for the authority of a council.
He was also keen to unite his subjects in order to restore his authority and not face rebellion as was his father's fate.
This seemingly gave all of Edward's subjects a potential role in government and this helped Edward assert his authority.
From Edward's reign onwards, the authority of the English Parliament would depend on the strength or weakness of the incumbent monarch.
Despite such gains in authority, however, the Commons still remained much less powerful than the House of Lords and the Crown.
Barry was assisted by Augustus Pugin, a leading authority on Gothic architecture and style, who designed the interior of the Palace.
The House's mace, which represents royal authority, is placed on the back of the Woolsack.
Six regions have local authority leaders' boards to assist with correlating the headline policies of local authorities.
The remaining two regions no longer have any administrative functions, having abolished their regional local authority leaders' boards.
Most of their functions transferred to the relevant regional development agency and to local authority leaders' boards.
Real power was wielded by the leader of the German occupation authority, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven.
The Prince of Wales has claimed that only he has the authority to use the symbol.
Roger was a Norman, son of William fitzOsbern, but had inherited less authority than his father held.
Judges may refer to various types of persuasive authority to reach a decision in a case.
Some bodies are given statutory powers to issue Guidance with persuasive authority or similar statutory effect, such as the Highway Code.
Ralph's authority seems also to have been less than his predecessors in the earldom, and this was likely the cause of the revolt.
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Courts may consider rulings made in other courts that are of equivalent authority in the legal system.
This critique is recent, as in the early history of the United States, citation of English authority was ubiquitous.
If a constitutional line of authority is wrong, he would say, let's get it right.
He was without authority, as the administrator in chief was without duty to him, for defaults or devastavits during the preceding administration.
Savage retribution was inflicted upon the rebels, and authority restored to Henry.
The Isles of Scilly are governed by a sui generis local authority called the Council of the Isles of Scilly.
The authority was established in 1890 as the Isles of Scilly Rural District Council.
One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.
The most recent official population estimates are 464,990 for the city of Edinburgh and 492,680 for the local authority area.
In 2010 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly had the lowest GVA per head of any county or unitary authority in England.
They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.
This authority is also reflected in Rule 28 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure.
Beneath them, lesser nobles had authority over smaller areas of land and fewer people.
Insofar as Henry had a policy it was to generally push back on papal influence, increasing his own local authority.
The City of London was uniquely given a commission of lieutenancy, and was exempt from the authority of the lieutenant of Middlesex.
Some of the government's executive authority is theoretically and nominally vested in the Sovereign and is known as the royal prerogative.
For instance, prosecutions are brought on the monarch's behalf, and courts derive their authority from the Crown.
Protests were made at the possibility of including Windsor, Slough and Eton in the authority.
Henry set about extending royal justice in England to reassert his authority and spent time in Normandy shoring up support amongst the barons.
Also, the districts of Brighton and Hove were merged to form the new unitary authority of Brighton and Hove.
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Its proposal for the West Midlands conurbation preferred instead an area of contiguous county boroughs with no overall metropolitan authority.
The ensuing breakdown of authority and people's livelihoods allowed rebel leaders such as Li Zicheng to challenge Ming authority.
The areas over which the councils had authority were designated as administrative counties.
Ducal authority was the strongest on the frontier near the Capetian royal demesne.
The Inner London Education Authority continued to exist as an ad hoc authority.
As a strategic authority, it absorbed only limited powers, such as major highways and planning strategy, from the borough councils.
Shared services were previously resisted due to councils guarding their authority.
Stephen was captured in February 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln, which prompted the collapse of his authority in both England and Normandy.
It is the role of the local planning authority to agree who should be the neighbourhood forum for the neighbourhood area.
Liverpool is the largest local authority by populace, GDP and area in Merseyside.
From Teddington Lock to the head of navigation, the navigation authority is the Environment Agency.
In the tidal section of the river below Gloucester, the Gloucester Harbour Trustees are the competent harbour authority.
The city of Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire.
It has a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils and since 1997, a unitary authority area of the City of Derby.
The referee, who is usually located off the court, is the final authority about tennis rules.
The Hawaiian king then adopted and flew the flag as a symbol of his own royal authority not recognising its national derivation.
While Jacobitism increasingly appealed to the disaffected, it inherently bowed to higher authority and thus reinforced the social order.
After this manner, authority working in a circle, they endeavoured to atheize one another.
The boss was reluctant to assert his authority over his employees.
Whigs rejected the Tory appeals to governmental authority and social discipline, and extended political discussion beyond Parliament.
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Three courtiers were put in charge of each post, with authority from Charles himself to order demolitions.
The senate's ultimate authority derived from the esteem and prestige of the senators.
Burke took a leading role in the debate regarding the constitutional limits to the executive authority of the king.
The householders protested, and Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Bloodworth was summoned, who alone had the authority to override their wishes.
His assumption of these powers decreased the authority of Rome's other political institutions.
It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.
There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading.
As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.
In the beginning God gave authority to Adam, who had complete control over his descendants, even over life and death itself.
It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God.
Pope comments on the classical authors who dealt with such standards, and the authority that he believed should be accredited to them.
Consolidates the Federal Reserve Banks and monetary authority functions undertaken by the central government.
With the King now present, Cromwell was eager to find out what conditions the King would acquiesce to if his authority was restored.
After the Black Death, many Europeans began to question the authority of the established Church.
His strengths were an instinctive ability to lead and train his men, and his moral authority.
Between 647 and 709, Muslims swept across North Africa and established their authority over that region.
Caxton's edition was reprinted by his successor, Wynkyn de Worde, but this edition has no independent authority.
Julian was also known as a spiritual authority within her community, where she also served as a counsellor and advisor.
Nobody had the constitutional authority to call an election, but Cromwell did not want to impose a military dictatorship.
Many former members of the Rump continued to regard themselves as England's only legitimate constitutional authority.
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Given that Pepin's claim to the kingship was now based on an authority higher than Frankish custom, no resistance was offered to Pepin.
It's the resistance of a group of violent male Islamocrats and warlords who want complete authority over every person in the nation.
Father hunger is the deep, but often unconscious, longing young men, and even older men, have for affirmation from male authority figures.
We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims, came by his authority.
The authority of the pater familias was unlimited, be it in civil rights as well as in criminal law.
Hunton had maintained that the king's prerogative is not superior to the authority of the Houses of Parliament.
Blake's trouble with authority came to a head in August 1803, when he was involved in a physical altercation with a soldier, John Schofield.
Since 1 April 1943 the authority has been split between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
He pushed through the Black Acts to assert royal authority over the Kirk, and denounced the writings of his former tutor Buchanan.
The Thai Emperor granted authority over Cambodia to France, in exchange for two provinces of Laos, which were ceded by Cambodia to Thailand.
In the late 16th century, James VI emerged as a major intellectual figure with considerable authority over the kingdom.
Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.
The Isle of Man fell under English control in the 14th century, despite several attempts to restore Scottish authority.
The National Palace continues to be the official seat of the executive authority, though it is no longer the official residence of the President.
It also promoted the individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom from classical notions of form in art.
With the bankruptcy of the London Company in 1624, the settlement was taken into royal authority as an English crown colony.
Thus, the authority of the president, when he was not a magistrate, was void in judicial matter and merely signed the verdicts.
He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
Thus, the territories of the viceroyalties emerged to affirm the authority of the king in a specific territory.
The treasury officials were appointed by the king, and were largely independent of the authority of the viceroy, audencia president or governor.

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